Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Murray Butler, Wet, made a speech a few weeks ago to an institute of arts and sciences at Columbia University, of which he is the hearty, eloquent president. Institutes of arts and sciences are gatherings at which subjects like Assyrian pottery, television, marine fossils or pure poetry may appropriately be discussed, on their artistic or scientific merits...
Significance. The significance of such researches in pure science are usually difficult for the lay mind to appreciate. It is plain, however, that the more people know of the nature of matter, the more they can do with that matter. This truism, Professor Karl Taylor Compton of Princeton (brother of Arthur Holly Compton) elaborated only last month at the Founder's Day exercises of Lehigh University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed...
...Broadway, and when he was through with it Jed Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes, and by her playing she joined immediately the tiny group of actresses who make the theatre a land of wonder, tears & pure delight. Ably seconding her acts is Elliot Cabot, Harvard graduate, who has, in the past, often been cast unprepos-sessingly as a frothy ne'er-do-well. Herein he plays a rough villager with whom the fickle lady of the play falls surpassingly in love. Her southern family storm...
...Juror Kidwell announced that he recalled talking in front of Reporter King of the Washington Herald but said that what Reporter King had sworn to was "all pure lies...
...this talk about the young folks going to the dogs and drinking themselves blind is pure nonsense. They are youthful and filled with sap and vinegar, but that does not mean that they are a gang of inebriates." In such a manner, W. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Federal prohibition agent, smilingly told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that college men today are "all right...